I was not, at all, suggesting to torrent over tor. Like I said, I don’t need to obfuscate my torrent traffic. I use tor for private browsing, which is the other major thing VPNs advertise themselves on.
In Australia, there is legal precedent that courts won’t make these judgments anymore. American media companies, in the past, were granted these orders. However, they would then go off and commit actions that are illegal here, like sending coercive letters saying stuff like “Pay us $25 or we’ll sue you”. But sending it to a few thousand people and hoping enough pay, that it will recover your costs. The case was involving Dallas Buyer’s Club. I actually got a letter, well my mum, when I was still living at home ~11 years ago.
I’m pretty sure they’re still allowed to ask your ISP nicely. Mine refuses those requests. This also isn’t my take on all of this, I followed the case back in the day on the Whirlpool forums.